Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostages had been released. Things went downhill from there. During three days of talks the American quartet met only officials who appeared to have little constituency or influence. McFarlane returned to the U.S., made a negative report to the NSC and once more believed the Iranian connection was broken. At about the same time, Shultz has said, Casey and Poindexter told him the operation had been "stood down...
...Benjamin Weir in September 1985, Father Lawrence Jenco last July and David Jacobsen in November. But three more Americans were kidnaped in Lebanon beginning in September. Even so, Reagan clung to his Iranian initiative to the bitter end. In his Nov. 19 press conference, after the storm had broken, the President voiced a wan hope that diplomatic contacts with Iran could continue, and Shultz had to practically bludgeon the President into announcing that there would be no more arms sales...
...Newsman Douglas Kiker uses Cape Cod in winter as the setting for Murder on Clam Pond (Random House; 228 pages; $15.95), in which a broken-down former newspaper reporter finds a new hometown, renewed professional vigor and the love of a much younger woman, all through probing the murder of his next-door neighbor. What lifts the book above the ordinary is a detailed and subtle portrait of the dark side of charity: the victim is the richest woman in town, and the chief suspects are a group of bright young adults whom she singled out for her largesse...
People here do not see the shacks along the backroads of Mississippi and Louisiana--broken down huts that are homes to rural Blacks. They don't see urban classrooms in which students must leave the communal books before they go home in the afternoons, the classrooms in which 11th graders are taught English as a means of understanding a telephone book or deciphering a movie schedule in a newspaper...
...president does not agree or condone the breaking of the law by any individual and he does not in any way believe that the president, whoever he might be, is above the law and has the right to pick and choose what laws may or may not be broken," Speakes told reporters...